[Goanet] STATE OF AFFAIRS
WHAT A STATE OF AFFAIRS! When I go to the Porvorim post office, The clerk takes about 10 minutes for one customer, and he cannot/ will not do any writing work because the printer is not working. On asking I am cheerfully told the matter has been reported 8 days back! The queue in the meantime is getting longer. The notice at the counter, that no work involving printer can be done is faded and almost unreadable. More surprising, people patiently tolerate all this patiently.Prices in the market are atrocious. CarrotsRs110/kg, tomatoes Rs90/-, bananas Rs60/doz and so on! The less said about the power and internet reliability the better. Instead of bothering about our problems in our daily lives that make it miserable, the government just adds to it by enacting laws to suit its own agenda. Enamoured by the antics of Modi and Shah entourage, the people are applauding these dynamics, which they do not really understand and suffering in silence. The climate of mistrust and antagonism being built up is frightenning. Desicrations are happenning in Goa again, and in other parts of India killing of pilgrims, vigilantism, ruling party/VIP arrogance going unchecked. When I scan the media, I see agitations and trouble all across our nation, Our border areas under threat, China encircling India and helping Pakistan in its nefarious agenda in Pakistan. Isn't it high time all those silent in the majority community speak up without fear and like beads in a Mala or Rosary every person/ religion is one bead, all joined together with the unity in diversity which the world admires us for? John Eric Gomes Porvorim (Tel 2417837)
[Goanet] (Goanet) State of affairs at the Goa Medical College
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:58:28 -0700 (PDT)Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [Goanet] State of affairs in Goa Medical College In GMC, if an accident victim is brought to casualy, it seems even a stretcher is not brought out to take him inside, unless one of the relatives of the patients uses some contacts. It seems that there is no avaiablity of basic things such as syringes, and injections, or IV drip in GMC. All these have to be bought by patients from private hospitals, and only then any treatment starts. The reason is that while sophisticated x-Ray and other equipment are bought by the authorities due to large commissions involved, these basic things dont involve big commission and hence are not bought. And now in Margao, a 400 bed hospital is being built to replace the Hospicio. Again there is huge money in real-estate deals and construction, but this building is going to be just a concrete structure with no basic medicines available. It is a big shame. regards, Samir -- And..I can add here: The Interns get pieces of local daily newspapers to wipe their hands after attending to patients and washing their hands. I know this first hand. God save the Junior Doctors Interns. Blessings. Agnelo
Re: [Goanet] State of affairs at the Goa Medical College
Dear Agnelo, Could you please provide some more details to this story? i.e. Which ward, What were the interns doing before and after they washed their hands and When? Dear Miguel, Could you please confirm that patients were actually shunted out? It is being suggested that the Herald report distorted the actual happenings. Is there any (taped) evidence to back up the reporters claims of what the Pediatrician is reported to have said? What exactly were here words? Does the reporter personally know the doctor concerned? Was she on staff at Chicalim / and on duty at the time of the incident? Or was she just being a Good Samaritan? May I also ask WHY the Herald has NOT published the name of the reporter who has made serious charges (perhaps justified / perhaps not) against a number of doctors? grateful jc awaiting Hurricane Hanna and the storms which are closely following Hanna. == Agnelo Fernandes wrote: The Interns get pieces of local daily newspapers to wipe their hands after attending to patients and washing their hands. I know this first hand.. Miguel Braganza wrote about the Chicalim incident: some doctors at the cottage hospital in Chicalim ... were getting ready to celebrate Ganesha Chaturthi in a hospital ward ...after pushing the inmates into the passage outside.
Re: [Goanet] (Goanet) State of affairs at the Goa Medical College
Folks It is shocking to hear how bad things are regarding medical provision today in Goa especially in emergencies and at the supposedly prestigious Goa Medical College. Once on just arriving in Goa in the 1970s on holiday, my young children were taken very ill having eaten egg-based sandwiches on a Swiss Air flight. I had to drive like someone demented, first trying to find a recommended doctor, and then desperatly trying to obtain urgently needed prescribed drugs from any pharmacy open late at night. After endless driving on unnamed and unlit roads, I stopped at Margao Hospicio where a kindly doctor gave me the drugs free that I needed so badly. In 1990, that is some time ago, I couldn't get an ambulance, for any amount of money, to have my very sick mother to a hospital in Vasco. Even worse was that when she died, I could only get an obliging truck driver to deliver her body home in the back of his open truck. Things were bad then and I can't believe they are even worse today. For God's sake, WHY? WHY? WHY? If it is possible for a collection to be made for an up to date ambulance in Goa, I would be the first to make a financial contribution if someone will please advise on this matter. Therefore, why is Goa over four decades after 1961 so backward in the provison of such basic essentials? And do the Western tourists know about this state of affairs? Peru for instance is not particularly well off as a country but they had excellent medical facilities (ambulances, English speaking doctors, nurses, equipment, drips and drugs for every requirement) when I was in need in August 2007 in the high altitude town of Cusco. Further, as a tourist, they readily collected me (accompanied by my wife)in an excellent ambulance, in next to no time from our hotel, treated me really well and only politely enquired if I had medical travel insurance when I was ready to leave hospital. I was indeed so impressed that I invited a particular young doctor who treated me to visit me and my family in London. Cuba too, a pretty poor country, has excellent medical provisions at no cost to the people there nor to tourists. I'm afraid I am intensely angry about the awful conditions in Goa as described by several posters and I really want to do something about it even if from faraway London. Just tell me someone--anyone, what the hell can I do to be of some help however minimal. And is it really as bad as I read in the Goanet posts? Please would someone reliable that I know, like Cecil, Miguel or Frederick provide confirmation on this last point? Cornel DaCosta PS How on earth does medical tourism operate in Goa when there is seemingly so little for the local people at a key hospital like the GMC? --- Agnelo Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote In GMC, if an accident victim is brought to casualy, it seems even a stretcher is not brought out to take him inside, unless one of the relatives of the patients uses some contacts. It seems that there is no avaiablity of basic things such as syringes, and injections, or IV drip in GMC. All these have to be bought by patients from private hospitals, and only then any treatment starts.
[Goanet] State of affairs in Goa Medical College
Sakir said: In GMC, if an accident victim is brought to casualy, it seems even a stretcher is not brought out to take him inside, unless one of the relatives of the patients uses some contacts. It seems that there is no avaiablity of basic things such as syringes, and injections, or IV drip in GMC. All these have to be bought by patients from private hospitals, and only then any treatment starts. The reason is that while sophisticated x-Ray and other equipment are bought by the authorities due to large commissions involved, these basic things dont involve big commission and hence are not bought. --- Reply: Correct, commissions involved (individual benefit ) bribes involved (individual profit), these Govt employess are using India Govt. for personal benefit. Sofisticated machines in GMC are not serviced regulary or operated properly due to lack of experience and when broken stay idle forever, becuase the state cannot afford to get the expensive spare parts. As I said I am talking out of experience of the GMC as a victim. These sophisticated machines can only be bought by the Govt with the taxpayers money. Jillian seems to have lost the plot here and asking the rich to go to private Hospitals. There is a limit to how much the Private hospital can have and how much the rich can pay ED.
[Goanet] State of affairs in Goa Medical College
In GMC, if an accident victim is brought to casualy, it seems even a stretcher is not brought out to take him inside, unless one of the relatives of the patients uses some contacts. It seems that there is no avaiablity of basic things such as syringes, and injections, or IV drip in GMC. All these have to be bought by patients from private hospitals, and only then any treatment starts. The reason is that while sophisticated x-Ray and other equipment are bought by the authorities due to large commissions involved, these basic things dont involve big commission and hence are not bought. And now in Margao, a 400 bed hospital is being built to replace the Hospicio. Again there is huge money in real-estate deals and construction, but this building is going to be just a concrete structure with no basic medicines available. It is a big shame. regards, Samir
